About Our Ministers, Lynn & Jerry Kerr

Rev. Lynn Kerr is a graduate of the Unitarian Universalist Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, California. She most recently served as Minister to the Maumee Valley Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Bowling Green, Ohio. Previously, she served as Minister of Religious Education at the First Unitarian Church of Toledo, Ohio, Youth and Young Adult Minister at the First UU Church of Concord, Massachusetts, Executive Director of the Dana Greeley Foundation for Peace and Justice, and Director of Donor Relations at the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Our congregation’s co-minister, Rev. Jerry Kerr, is a graduate of Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina, and also attended Starr King, where he met Lynn during their first week of orientation in 1994. Jerry recently served as Assistant Minister alongside Lynn in Bowling Green, Ohio, and has worked in HIV/AIDS prevention for 19 years in Toledo, Ohio, and Boston, Massachusetts. He is the founder of Northwest Ohio Syringe Services, a program that treats injection drug users with respect and compassion.

Lynn and Jerry have one son, Rowan, who is a public school teacher in Chicago, Illinois.